It’s time for people to roll out their best-of lists for the year, so here’s one from my excellent co-worker Angie B. She has excellent taste in books for teens, so I plan to read each of her top ten books for teens in 2002 (in order by author):

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Left for Dead by Pete Nelson
This Land Was Made for You and Me by Elizabeth Partridge
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci

with honorable mention to:
Three Clams and an Oyster by Randy Powell
The Parallel Universe of Liars by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
Seven for a Secret by Mary C. Sheppard
Gossip Girl series